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Despite his illness, Ecker was a person who tried to fill every moment of his own life and the lives of others with a sense of uniqueness, his friends said. "I have learned to savor little things," Sonnenfeld quoted Ecker as saying just before his death...
...that the Secretary of the Treasury does not savor luxury. He likes Cardin belts, monogrammed shirts and $500 Dunhill suits, but on his round shoulders they just flop and hang. He also has a taste for $1.25 Jamaican Dunhill cigars, of which he burns up five to seven a day. Whenever he does not have an official dinner, he likes to slip out to a small and modest Italian restaurant, where he is seldom recognized. When it is on the menu, he orders steak tartare, which he tosses and stirs with great panache...
...expected resignation, the only option is early elections. The prospect, risky as it might be, did not bother many Christian Democrats as much as the step-by-inexorable-step Communist advance on power. But elections would doubtless be a trauma that neither Communist nor Christian Democrat would savor right away, and there are likely to be weeks of painful maneuvering and countermaneu-vering before they are willing to face that drastic ultimate step. In the meantime, the violent voices resounding through the streets of Italy can be counted on to add their own strident note of urgency...
...Almost from its beginnings, Citicorp Center was envisioned as a place to shop and savor and feast at all hours, an In spot in the inner city. To Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, it will be "a living, positive part of the neighborhood, 24 hours a day, for decades to come. We would like to think of the Citicorp Center as the cornerstone of a new New York...
...lost: Bertolucci abruptly and wisely segues from the festivities to an epilogue, set in the present, that brings the enormous film full circle. Not everyone will have the patience to stay with 1900 to its indelible final cut, but for years to come, those who love film will savor and analyze each exasperating moment. - Frank Rich